Loneliness

At moments when loneliness seems to crush all beauty, the only way to resist is to keep yourself open. (Paulo Coelho)

Dream

Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth. (Jean-Paul Sartre)

Beauty

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart. (Helen Keller)

Happines

The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. (Allan K. Chalmers)

Friendship

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? (Abraham Lincoln)

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves. (Albert Camus)

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. (Alice Walker)

The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed. Perhaps it should be added that either the man or the woman thus deeply bound in lifelong friendship who seeks marriage must find a still rarer man or woman to wed, to make such a three cornered comradeship a permanent success. (Anna Garlin Spencer)

If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. (Aristotle)

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference. (Audre Lorde)

Choice

The most decisive actions of our life ... are most often unconsidered actions. (André Gide)

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose. (C. Wright Mills)

If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning. (Carl Rogers)

Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "drawn toward." Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies. (Carter Heyward)